conversion and shortening as productive ways of word formation

conversion back-formation shortening or clipping blending reduplication borrowing acronymy voicing conversion and shortening as productive ways of word formation topics for discussion: historical development of conversion and its origin semantic relations between converted pairs and motivation shortening and its types clippings and their classification abbreviation and its types mixed forms of shortening historical development of conversion and its origin in old english verbs and nouns had inflexions. it means that verbs had the inflexions of tenses. the verb to love had the form of “lufian”, the noun love in old english had the form of “lufu”. at the beginning of the middle english period the inflexions of the verbs and nouns disappeared which is called “the loss of endings”. as …

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